Steve Eylar

@JOBhakdi Because the Iranians don't need to stop, and Trump can't make them?

We can be quite sure that * 90% of Silicon Valley lobbyists * 90% of Wall Street lobbyists * 100% of America first lobbyists * Many (former) MAGA influencers is advising Trump HEAVILY against this war. How is it possible that they ALL failed to prevent and / or end this quickly?

@RonFilipkowski If he has received 22 trillion in his first year, our national debt can be paid back by next year !!! Hail Tr... Oh, wait, he's lying again isn't he.

There’s no need to worry about the economy because Trump has promised us that he has secured verbal commitments from around the world from foreign businesses to invest $22 trillion in the US. That should pretty much solve all our problems. And it’s all because they love Trump.

Easy. I don't cut off my nose to spite my face, as the saying goes. It doesn't hurt Elon one little bit if I don't buy the car or the stock. It doesn't persuade his opinions one little bit if I disagree with him. To boycott Elon's products, would, however, rob me of a great car and a great stock. That would be stupid.

I have a serious question for Tesla fans and $TSLA shareholders. How do you get over the fact that the company is led by someone, Elon, who, for a fact, asked to go to the "wildest parties" of a convicted p3do on several occasions and lied about it, and another, Kimball, who "dated" women, referenced as "Epstein's girls", through Epstein, and thanked him for it, and then lied about it? These are facts confirmed through their own communications with Epstein. It's not up for question, so you have to either ignore it or be OK with it. So I'm seriously asking. How do you do that?

@TeslaBoomerMama Generally, I don't think anyone would want to buy any of Musk's companies. Primarily, it would be incredibly expensive, and it's hard to imagine synergies that make it worth the price. If anyone would want to buy, it would be for the purpose of eliminating the competition.

❓ Do you think that any Musk company is at risk of being purchased by another company, if they don't merge among themselves? Comment with your theory: why would someone want to buy SpaceX/xAI or Tesla?

@TeslaBoomerMama I like this a lot. When SpaceX goes public, I hope there's ample communication about what happens to TSLA, because I would not like to see TSLA crash because people sell TSLA to buy SpaceX. Do you think a TSLA crash (short term, I'd hope) can be avoided?

@JOBhakdi Dilution isn't good if it means our TSLA shares will grow slower. Elon's old compensation target was already 10 years out. So now, instead of 6x in 10 years, it's less than that in 10 years. Plenty can happen in 10 years to change the entire plan.

I love how Gary Black says Tesla shareholders won’t be thrilled to get diluted by 35% In return for participating in the (rapid) construction of a Kardashev 2 civilization. Yeah, probably a bad deal.

@GoldenAgeUnfold zero%

What are the chances you'd vote for JD Vance for President in 2028? A. 100% B. 50% C. 25% D. 0%

@FredLambert It's safer because their resources can follow robotaxis in areas where their confidence is lower. The confidence can be very high, but still have a gradient of confidence levels. Watching some areas of town more than others is safer.

The Tesla fans criticizing me for pointing this out are completely missing the point. "It's normal. They are still testing." Shut up. Having a safety monitor in the testing phase is normal. No one is arguing against that. What's not normal is moving that safety monitor to the passenger seat and now to a trailing car. There's no safety benefit over having the safety monitor behind the steering wheel. None. That's where they should be until Tesla can prove that they are useless. That's it. The only reason they are not doing that is for optics, which has been my whole point since the beginning of the Robotaxi program. It's about the illusion that Tesla is close to solving autonomy (even though Musk has been saying for years that it is already solved). That's a whole can of worms on its own, but it's ultimately about safety. Can anyone tell me why it is safer than Tesla keeping the safety monitor in the driver's seat ready to take control?

@ArthurMacwaters grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5…

Let me get this straight > illegal immigrant-headed households use far more welfare than US-born households > thus, they're dependent on states that fund welfare w/out regard to citizenship > these states gain additional congressional seats via apportionment, and eventually loyal voters when naturalized This is a gerrymandering scheme funded by taxpayers California, for example, spends literally $12b just on free healthcare coverage for illegal immigrants through MediCal It also applies on a district level within a state btw Political parties are meant to gain power by winning voters over with policy and performance. Not by shifting demographics via bribery.

@TheRabbitHole This is the overall problem with Charlie's approach. He "debates" unsuspecting college kids, then takes advantage of their lack of debating skills. Charlie, otoh, is very skilled, and made a lot of money on this shtick. It by no means indicates there is or isn't white privilege.

An exchange with Charlie Kirk: > Whites have privilege. > What can Whites do that Blacks can’t? > Nothing. > Then there’s no white privilege.

@DirtyTesLa I thought the march of 9s was important. What's this march of 2s?

FSD 14.2.2.2.1

@wmertens @ElectroBOOMGuy @Teslaconomics I realize that. I'm more thinking the issue was probably something other than LIDAR, as it doesn't depend on the grid being on, directly.

@SteveEylar @ElectroBOOMGuy @Teslaconomics FSD doesn't need local data centers to be online

I realize more and more that there is such a thing as dumb person in life. “Turn off the lights and vision fails, LiDAR keeps working” may sound logical in theory, but the Waymo SF power outage really just disproved it. During the recent San Francisco power outage, Waymo’s entire LiDAR-heavy robotaxi fleet went offline. Literally the entire fleet just stopped operating. Meanwhile, all Tesla Robotaxis kept running! Tesla’s vision-based system is trained on billions of miles, neural nets, and, most importantly, doesn’t require a city to be perfectly powered to function. An alien UFO could land in the middle of nowhere with the entire city blacked out and it will still work. Humans don’t drive with lasers. We drive with our eyes, we process what we see with our brain, and then we react with our body. Tesla does the same thing, except the brain is AI, trained on billions of real-world miles. Tesla’s Vision system learns the world as it is, adapts in real time, and improves continuously and is NOT dependent on special maps, perfect lighting, or city-by-city infrastructure like LiDAR. That’s why it scales. With a simple software update, Tesla’s Vision AI can operate anywhere instead of just where the environment was pre-approved or carefully controlled like LiDAR. This is how generalized real-world autonomy gets solved. I believe this will be obvious in hindsight.

@ElectroBOOMGuy @Teslaconomics Has Waymo said what the actual problem was? Could have been something as simple as the network at their local support center went down. It would be interesting to find out.

@Teslaconomics You guys do realize the Waymo problem wasn't a failure of LiDAR against vision cameras, right? it was a failure of how Waymo treats intersections during a power outage. So, paint yourselves a clown too!

@DrKnowItAll16 @Starlink I have one in the forest near Pisté (Chichén Itzá). 30 minutes from any paved road.

A @starlink dish in the jungle in Mexico (Yax mul cenote). Way to bring high speed internet to the world!

When asked what the most useless piece of knowledge I have is, I have an easy answer. I know Pi to 50 digits. I did, however, win a geek coffee mug at the Dragon-Con hackers presentation one year. (I waited for everyone else to go first. The guy checking the answers didn't know it past 40 or so, so when I got that far, he just declared me the winner :) )

Fun fact: though many have memorized pi to a large number of decimal places, each decimal place is roughly an order of magnitude less meaningful for measuring distance than the one that came before it; therefore "only" 27 decimal places are necessary to achieve precision within 1 hydrogen atom's width between any 2 objects in our solar system (and only 37 decimal places to achieve precision within one Planck length anywhere in the observable universe).

🚨 Breaking: Tesla is hiring AI Distillation Engineers to compress large models into smaller ones that can run on the inference hardware in cars.

I asked Grok to read and transcribe an old, faded document. It came back with a review of an old UNIVAC programming guide). When I explained that none of that was in the document and that it had hallucinated the whole thing, it then read the document (a property deed from 1987) properly. It brought back memories for me though. I spent many years programming UNIVAC machines.

Please provide examples where @Grok needs to improve in replies. Showing how another AI does it better would be helpful. These examples should be of Grok going wrong today, as we fixed many bugs from earlier in the week.

@farzyness I think George Carlin summed up the reason elected officials often aren't qualified: "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin

Warren doesn't understand how the economy works. You don't create safeguards by breaking up companies. You create safeguards by incentivizing competition. How is this person an elected official lmao

@TeslaBoomerMama @X Ignoring the bot issue, my main gripe is that "for you" is useless. X doesn't have a clue what I'd like to see.

What annoys you most about @X ?

@farzyness No statistically significant association in any previous peer-reviewed study either.

Dang I guess I better return my 10 year supply I just bought off Amazon.

@farzyness No need to believe Grok on every point (nor should you). Grok is easily checked as accurate on this topic. Just look for a peer-reviewed study supporting the claim made. What you'll find is there are no peer-reviewed supportive studies, and the largest found no association: Karolinska Institutet/Drexel University Study (JAMA, 2024) Findings: This large cohort study of 2.48 million children born in Sweden (1995–2019) found no association between prenatal acetaminophen use and increased risk of autism, ADHD, or intellectual disability when using sibling control analysis (hazard ratios ~0.98–1.01). Initial population-based models showed a slight risk, but this disappeared when comparing siblings, suggesting familial confounding (e.g., genetics or shared environment) explains earlier associations.

@SteveEylar @OG_DrC Grok is being reprogrammed 😡

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